Odetta & The Blues

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Odetta & The Blues
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Artist: Odetta
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-02-17
Music Label: Obc
Soundtracks:
  1. Hard, O Lord
  2. Believe I'll Go
  3. Oh, Papa
  4. How Long Blues
  5. Hogan's Alley
  6. Leavin' This Mornin'
  7. Oh, My Babe
  8. Yonder Comes The Blues
  9. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
  10. Weeping Willow Blues
  11. Go Down, Sunshine
  12. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out

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Music Review: Very satisfying surprise...
Rating: 4 Stars

There are almost as many kinds of "blues" in the music world as their are troubles to inspire the writing of them. There are black blues from the Delta to Chicago with detours to Harlem, Atlanta and Los Angeles; funeral blues; folk, rock, jazz, classical and opera blues. On this CD, originally issued as an LP in 1962, the great folksinger Odetta, who in that day hung out with Harry Belafonte and performed the songs of Dylan, Guthrie and other folk/protest composers, got with jazz producer Orrin Keepnews to make a blues record for the Riverside label, which was famous for jazz and lesser-known for folk releases. Keepnews put together a backing group featuring trumpet, trombone, clarinet, piano, bass and drums, and Odetta chose a dozen blues numbers that mostly could be performed in an assertively defiant style, at moderate and faster tempos. This album could be subtitled "Fightin' Back at the Blues" because there's no surrender, no defeat. I like it a bunch. I've only had two criticisms of Odetta over her long career in folk music: on many of her albums, she stretched out great three-minute songs to four, and powerful four-minute songs to five, and tended to slow down many songs I felt were better rendered at a quicker pace. No problem like that on this disc. One reviewer here hated the jazz band arrangments, but I felt they contributed a great deal to the enjoyability. I withheld one star only because a couple of the songs are a bit weaker than the rest. Odetta's vocal gift was immense. She is the closest thing to a female Paul Robeson I have ever found. And this CD, while not showcasing Odetta doing the material that made her a folk star, belongs in the collection of every real fan of hers.
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